Google

Forward Deployed Engineering Manager III, GenAI, Google Cloud

Google$262K — $365K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant field; or equivalent experience.
  • 8 years of customer-facing cloud computing experience.
  • 2 years managing technical teams in a cloud environment.
  • Proficiency in Python or similar programming languages.
  • Experience with AI/GenAI solutions and designing complex workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Establish code standards and architectural practices to enhance team performance.
  • Collaborate with sales and tech leaders to define technical requirements for opportunities.
  • Oversee technical hiring for the FDE team, assessing AI/ML and coding skills.
  • Identify emerging tech skills gaps to maintain team expertise in AI developments.
  • Work with product and engineering to overcome obstacles and inform product roadmaps.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness plans.
  • Generous paid time off policy.
  • Retirement plan options with employer contributions.
  • Opportunities for professional development and education.
  • Employee resource groups and community involvement initiatives.
Full Job Description
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Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8 years of experience in cloud computing or a technical customer-facing role.
  • 2 years of experience managing a software engineering, FDE, or similar technical customer-facing team in a cloud computing environment.
  • Experience in Python or similar coding languages.
  • Experience developing AI/GenAI solutions utilizing AI tools, or designing multi-agent workflows or RAG systems.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Master's degree or PhD in AI, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
  • Experience designing end-to-end secure, observable multi-agent systems using complex design patterns (e.g., ReAct, self-reflection), state management, and tool-calling protocols.
  • Experience designing intuitive interfaces for complex AI and agentic systems, prioritizing context engineering, transparency, and explainability to foster user trust.
  • Experience architecting AI solutions within complex infrastructures, ensuring data sovereignty and secure governance.
  • Experience performing discovery interviews to identify business problems and translate complex hardware/AI constraints for C-suites and technical teams.


About the job

As a Manager of a GenAI Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) team, you will lead AI/ML engineers who bridge the gap between frontier AI products and production-grade reality within customers. You are responsible for a team that doesn't just consult, but codes, debugs and jointly deploys bespoke agentic solutions directly within customer environments. In this role, you will provide technical mentorship to your team while balancing high-level strategic alignment with product, engineering, and Google Cloud Regional Sales leadership. Your mission is to empower and unblock your team as they resolve production-level obstacles, including data readiness issues, integration complexities, and state-management challenges that hinder AI from achieving enterprise-grade maturity.

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $262,000-$365,000 bonus equity benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Learn more about benefits at Google .

Responsibilities
  • Serve as the technical lead, establishing code standards, architectural best practices, and benchmarks to elevate engineering excellence across the team.
  • Partner with sales and tech leadership to define requirements for high-value opportunities, deploying specialized experts (MLOps, GenMedia, or Agentic systems) to key accounts.
  • Lead technical hiring for FDE, evaluating AI/ML expertise, systems engineering, and coding skills to build an exceptional engineering team.
  • Identify skill gaps in emerging tech (MCP, tool-calling, and foundation models), ensuring the team maintains subject matter expertise in an evolving AI stack.
  • Collaborate with product and engineering to resolve blockers and translate field insights into roadmaps while building internal tools to drive organizational efficiency.


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About Google

Google is a multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The company has grown tremendously since then and has become one of the most valuable companies in the world. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
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